Reflection
  • We now do Virtual Book Sprints

    Facilitating Virtual Book Sprints is our response to the new normal and the needs of our clients. Their need is to collaboratively and efficiently produce knowledge, some of it more urgent than ever. Customizing the Book Sprint experience Our team ... read more

  • Why Book Sprints work

    Our recent Book Sprint in Cambridge was unique because the founder of Book Sprints, Adam Hyde brought his organization, the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko) together to do a Book Sprint. He also got to participate for the first time in a methodology ... read more

  • Different sprint methods explained in five minutes

    Every year, the Forum of Digitalization in Higher Education (HFD) in Germany organizes a summer school for teachers, scientists and academic staff to exchange their experiences in interactive formats. They learn from and with one another how the digitization of ... read more

  • Inside the Editoria Community

    Book Sprints operations manager and facilitator trainee Karina Piersig recently travelled to Chicago, Illinois to attend the Editoria Community Meeting. Book Sprints rely on Editoria as the technological infrastructure upon which our facilitators and Book Sprints participants collaborate to author, ... read more

  • A pause for reflection: Book Sprints in 2019

    To document a fantastic year ending, and to and celebrate a bright, new year’s beginning, the Book Sprints bunch sat down to share reflections and learnings from 2019. We hope you enjoy! Q: How many Sprints did the team do ... read more

  • Our 10th anniversary!

    It’s been a really good 10th anniversary year for us and we would like to thank everyone who participated in sharing their memories of #booksprints10. We solidified our small company, diversified our client base, worked on refining our method, and ... read more

  • SOLD: Selling Outcomes Leading Deals

    Sold: Selling Outcomes Leading Deals is Xentaurs first book. A small technology consulting start-up, started two years ago, Xentaurs have made a name for themselves in big tech, with their unique outcome-based sales approach. What gets sold has really changed. ... read more

  • Book Sprints turns 10

    We can’t believe it’s been 10 years since the first of all Book Sprints. At the time, Adam Hyde was leading the community and platform for sharing free and open source software documentation, FLOSS Manuals. He was looking for innovative ... read more

  • What Happened in Westport

    “So what’s the normal product at the end of 5 days, a table of contents or something?” asked one of the people joining this week’s Book Sprint on Human Robot Interaction. I chuckled to myself, reassured him that no book ... read more